Thursday, November 27, 2014

Via her twitter account
(@MariaCorinaYA) opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has informed that the
SEBIN has handed her the official notification from the Prosecutor’s office
accusing her of a being part of a
plot to assassinate president Maduro.

She has been summoned
to the Prosecutor’s office to hear the formal accusation on December 3.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

President Maduro approved
yesterday a Law of National Security which, according
to him, creates a Sistema de
Protección Popular para la Paz.

The system will
directly answer to the President’s office and is based on “the labor class, intelligence
teams, and control systems.” It includes four subsystems (for peace, popular
power, protection, and operations) and will be headed by a Comandante, yet to be appointed.

The creation of this
new People’s Protection System has become necessary, explained Maduro, in order
to fight against the “terrorism and para-militarism orchestrated by the right.”

The Agencia
Venezolana de Noticas quotes president Maduro: “through this instance,
the ‘para-military threat that has come to our country because of the
right-wing,’ and that is made visible through crimes such as the murder of the Deputy
Robert Serra, committed on October 1, and the violent actions promoted by
sectors of the ultra-right during the first semester of the year, which
produced more than 40 murders.”

The unnamed author claims
that “the so called Velvet Revolution” was but a coup d’état that used “manipulation
and deceit to generate a panic campaign.”

The “show” staged by the plotters against
the communist State mainly used young people and students as cannon fodder.

Through lies,
including a staged murder, the plotters achieved the fall of the government and
the rise to power of the “ultra-rightist” Václav Havel.

Behind this “Velvet Revolution”
was the United States selling its expansionist policies as non-violent
struggles against “supposed communist totalitarianism.”

The tactic was denominated
“the soft coup” (according to the article the term was invented by Gene Sharp),
and continues to be used today by the United States against “countries opposed
to the interests of Washington: Syria, Libya, China, Ecuador, Georgia, and Ukraine
among others.”

“Venezuela is also in the list of targets of
the Washington recipe,” ends the article, “Venezuela is one of the richest
nations in bio-diversity, oil, minerals, and water. This is why in the last years,
facing a sobering and independent State, the United States has used the Venezuelan
right-wing to put an end to the Bolivarian Revolution through different means.
Coups d’état, economic and media wars, and ‘non-violent and color protests’ – such as the one in Czechoslovakia
– are all part of these practices that use young people to reach their aims: to
take hold of the wealth of the people.”

In the video López
does not speak of the possibility of a coup or even of violent protests to
overthrow Maduro. He does claim that previous elections were stolen from the
opposition and questions if the opposition should assume the “attitude proper
to a democratic system” which, according to López, implies preparing for future
elections.

However the article
by AVN, following Últimas Noticas, claims that López was in truth explaining
his “Putschist plan ‘The Exit’” to the “the subversive organization VEPPEX, or Politically
Persecuted Venezuelans in Exile.”

This is how AVN explains
“The Exit” (La Salida):

Through "The
Exit" or "Solution," subversive groups used violence and
terrorism to cause unrest in the country, resulting in 43 deaths, attempts
against the life of children and workers, as well as hindered the right of free
passage with mortal devices such as wires in major roads.

AVN also links the
plan to the “Economic War” denounced repeatedly by Maduro:

The plan was carried
out between February and June 2014 simultaneously with an economic war
characterized by smuggling, hoarding and overpricing of staple goods, with the
open target of overthrowing the Nicolas Maduro Administration.

The article ends with
the assertion that López was forced to hand himself to the authorities seeking
protection from a plan by “right-wing leaders to attempt” against his life:

Simultaneously to
"The Exit," intelligence corps found out a plan devised within
right-wing leaders to attempt against Lopez, situation that made him surrender
to the Public Ministry.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

For the President of
the National Assembly and vice-president of PSUV, Diosdado
Cabello, “[i]t has become evident that the right represents and
organization for the overthrowing the government, they are foreign coup
mongers.”

He referred to the SOS
campaign during the opposition protests at the beginning of this year. Many international
artists called for solidarity with the protestors by holding signs which read “Venezuela
SOS”. Cabello believes that the fact that a similar campaign has not been staged
by those same artist in solidarity with the 43 student missing in Mexico is
evidence that the Venezuelan campaign was a “paid media campaign.”

“Many artists
expressed their solidarity with the Venezuelan opposition in February, but for
them in Mexico, where the State made 43 students disappear, nothing is
happening. For Maria Conchita [Alonso] Mexico does not exist. That’s because there
are no dollars, there is no SOS [campaign],” argued Cabello.

According to Cabello
the purpose of the meeting was to coordinate “actions to provoke scarcity of Christmas
products and thus generate chaos during month of December in the insular
territory [Margarita island in Nueva Esparta State], by paralyzing transport
and commerce.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

President Nicolás
Maduro has
announced that 2015 is “set to become the year in which the victory of the
people over the Economic War, expressed in speculation, scarcity, and hoarding,
will be consolidated.”

“2014 will be remembered
as the year the guarimba was
defeated, and 2015 will be the year of the definite defeat of the Economic War
and its sequels, [an Economic War] waged by the international bilateral
anti-Venezuelan capital,” said the president.

He added that in
spite of all the measures taken by the government “the oligarchy still insists
on benefiting from the Economic War that is being faced by our people,”
therefore the government will soon take new measures “to protect the people.”

The people, according
to Maduro, will punish that oligarchy by casting a protest vote against it
in next year’s parliamentary elections: “Not only will the people vote for the
revolutionary path, the legacy of the Comandante
Chávez, of peace and stability for the country; the people will cast a protest
vote against the evils of the right wing, against the guarimba, against the Economic War, it will be a full swing protest
vote,” Maduro said.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The president of the
National Assembly and vice-president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, denounced yesterday that a new “terrorist
group” is being formed by Venezuelan exiles in Miami.

The “destabilizing group”
is, according to Cabello, led by Iván Carratú Molina, chief of the Military House
under ex-president Carlos Andrés Pérez.

Cabello said that
Carratú Molina has been posting videos on Youtube calling for a military
uprising in Venezuela. He also remained listeners
that he had already revealed in February this year a recording of what he
claimed was a conversation of Carratú Molina with the Venezuelan ex-ambassador
to Colombia, Fernando Gerbasi, in which they spoke of making preparations for “something
similar to April 11” (the day of the coup against Chávez in 2002).

Here is one of the
videos of Carratú Molina that Cabello could be referring to:

Sunday, November 2, 2014

The Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States is
holding its 153rd hearings session in Washington.

On 28 October the Commission
heard the case of Venezuela. Local NGOs, among them COFAVIC and PROVEA, made
a detailed presentation of 892 cases of human rights violations in
Venezuela.

Germán Saltrón
responded for the Venezuelan State that all
human rights NGOs operating in the country are “financed by the United States,”
and that they are in cahoots with “90% of the local and international media” in
a plot to “attack and play down the historical importance of the victories of
the Venezuelan government.”

"In order to achieve
social justice the eternal president Hugo Chávez Frías decreed the
nationalization of our oil industry and strengthened the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries for the defense of a fair price for oil. As a consequence
of these actions of sovereignty, the government of the United States, together
with the Venezuelan opposition, initiated since 1999 an internal and external
campaign of discredit, falsely presenting president Chávez as a dictator and a
human rights violator.

"To accomplish this
they have used Venezuelan and foreign NGOs to present reckless, unfounded, and
false denunciations [of human rights violations]."